Imconfused (governments and attempt to reduce production of c02)?

Question

According to the counter-documentary to al gore's "an inconvinient truth". Scientists say that the C02 output produced by countries is just a small percentage to whats considered the biggest contributor to c02 namely the big blue oceans..

Here in holland the government is raising the taxes every year on numerous new things they can come up with in name of saving our eco-system, while it isnt sure we are the biggest cause the global warming. Though we do add to it, but not that much..
In parrallel while we (the citizens) still try our best to reduce car usage and cut back on energy consumption and pay for dim-energy saving lights, and they even hand out fines of we don't,
they, the government built 2 extra coal-burning energy-plants.
Wich is one of the dirtiest and most environmental unfriendly but low cost and high energy-productive ways of producing juice for energy consumption..

Do you think governments maybe

..use this "truth" whether tue or not, but still use it as "A truth" or better put as an "excuse" to take more money from us citizens by giving "us" guilt feelings and putting the weight and the responsibillity of the eco on our shoulders and
let *us* even out the balance on the eco-system while they take more and more money so they can use it for other things like loewring state-debt etc??

Do you think what they do is wrong?

Answer 1

Sure what they are doing is wrong. And the only way they could do what they are doing is because people have bought into the lie of man made global warming.

How much co2 is removed from the climate for every Euro collected?

Global warming is happening,but it's caused by the Sun, not man. But how would gvmt's tax what's natural?

Bureaucrats will always have you believe that the world is coming to an end, and you're the cause. And naturally, only the bureaucrat has the ability to save you from yourself. It will just cost you your money and freedom!

Answer 2

I believe the oceans absorb or "sequester" CO2, not produce it. They are turning more and more acidic from the huge amounts they have absorbed. Soon, they won't meet the American water quality standards! Imagine that. The whole ocean!. People produce the most CO2. Volcanoes are a very distant second. We have the same probem in America with our government. They are trying to build more and more coal plants because of all the bribes and corruption we have, and they block any other type of program that's less harmful. The guy we have now will be leaving soon, but the problem is finding one who won't be worse. Picking the best of a bad lot is very hard. All I can say is, never give up.


Catseyenebula, it is you who are wrong. Termites do not produce more CO2. What a thing to say! Termites produce a little bit of methane, and no CO2 that is detectable. And were you taught no manners at all? What a way to behave! Get some education or stop posting. You shame your parents!

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990JGR....95.3619K

Answer 3

Oceans are currently uptaking more CO2 than they emit. Nature; including oceans, currently takes back about 1/2 of the amount of CO2 emissions from human activity. The other half is not taken back. This wouldn't be a big deal if it only happened for a couple of years. But, it is the cummulative effect of many years of increased emissions that leads to the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere. This concept is known with certainty, and is not part of the scientific debate on global warming. It is however, still part of the propaganda debate.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/stateofknowledge.html

Answer 4

While the human contribution to CO2 emissions is relatively small in comparison to natural sources like the oceans, the natural sources are part of the natural carbon cycle, which is in very good balance. Basically the planet absorbs as much CO2 as it emits (actually a little bit more). When we add new CO2 to the system by burning fossil fuels, the natural cycle can't absorb it, and it ends up accumulating in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and thus global warming. This diagram helps explain it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon_cycle_diagram.jpg

So governments are right to try and do what they can to reduce human emissions.

Governments also have to meet energy needs if they increase, and coal is the cheapest source of energy currently available (also the most environmentally damaging). It's certainly bad policy to collect taxes to combat global warming and then turn around and build coal burning power plants. Perhaps your government should have used that tax money to build renewable energy plants instead.

Answer 5

What they are doing is totally wrong and dreadfully unfair. Especially since no reputable scientist believes humans cause climate change.

You live in a socialist society. The US is struggling with not being taken over that way because we like our freedom of choice. So it's a constant battle here.

Once the government controls everything, they can do anything they want. I feel for you and hope the people can take back the country.

I just hope people in the US can see how bad it is in these socialist countries and will work overtime to make sure it never happens to them.

(I'll get a few thumbs down from the socialists out there, but I don't mind.)

Answer 6

Actually it is sure that we are the biggest contributor to global warming, or at least about as sure as one can be in science.

We know that the extra CO2 that is causing the warming comes from us.

Answer 7

Yea your government is screwing ya.